Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.